Personal Legislation

HB 26 - Extend Cert. D.e. Midwives Bd; Audit Rprt

An Act extending the termination date of the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives; requiring an interim report regarding the board's audit compliance and budget deficit; and providing for an effective date.

HB 32 - Workers Comp: Controlled Substances Tests

An Act relating to employer-required drug testing; requiring the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board to adopt regulations relating to the prescription of controlled substances to employees; and relating to the prescription of controlled substances to employees.

HB 44 - Sex Abuse/ Assault/ Dating Viol Prev. Progs

An Act relating to course mastery requirements; relating to the duties of the Department of Education and Early Development; relating to questionnaires administered in a public school; relating to the duties of school districts and regional educational attendance areas; relating to teacher certification requirements; relating to training for school employees and mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect; relating to physical examinations for students; relating to sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention efforts in public schools; relating to dating violence and abuse awareness and prevention efforts in public schools; relating to national criminal history record check requirements for employees of child care facilities and residential child care facilities; relating to mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect; repealing the requirement for secondary students to take college and career readiness assessments; establishing the Alaska Safe Children's Act Task Force; relating to suicide prevention training; and providing for an effective date.

HB 61 - Military Meritorious Award License Plates

An Act relating to special motor vehicle registration plates for recipients of the Bronze Star awarded for valor, Silver Star, Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Air Force Cross, Coast Guard Cross, and other awards reflecting valor; and providing for an effective date.

HB 100 - Urea/ Ammonia/ Gas-Liq Facility; Tax Credit

An Act establishing a credit against the net income tax for an in-state processing facility that manufactures urea, ammonia, or gas-to-liquid products; relating to establishing the value of the state's royalty share of gas production based on contracts with certain in-state processing facilities that manufacture urea, ammonia, or gas-to- liquid products; and providing for an effective date.

HB 115 - AK Sovereignty;US Transfer Land To Alaska

An Act relating to the sovereignty of the state and the state's right to a credit or setoff for amounts or injuries inequitably or unlawfully caused or claimed by the federal government; requiring the United States to lift certain land orders and federal withdrawals; relating to the transfer of public land or interests in public land from the federal government to the state and to the disposal of that land or any interest in land; and providing for an effective date.

HB 132 - AGDC Support Of Natural Gas Projects

An Act relating to the purpose, powers, and duties of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation related to the Alaska liquefied natural gas project and an in-state natural gas pipeline; relating to the in-state natural gas pipeline fund; and providing for an effective date.

HCR 5 - Declare 2015-2017 As Years Of The Arctic

Declaring 2015, 2016, and 2017 to be the Years of the Arctic; encouraging the state and its partners to join with the Institute of the North in encouraging the state to promote its Arctic policy during the Years of the Arctic and to take action to address the strategic recommendations in the Implementation Plan of the Alaska Arctic Policy Commission.

HJR 6 - Federal Contamination Of ANCSA Lands

Supporting the introduction and enactment of federal legislation acknowledging that the federal government is financially responsible under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for the remediation of contaminated land subject to conveyance under the Act; urging the United States Department of the Interior to implement the six recommendations to identify and clean up the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act lands in its 1998 report to the United States Congress; and urging the President of the United States and the United States Congress to remediate and make free from pollutants lands in the state conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

HJR 9 - Endorsing ANWR Leasing; Related Issues

Urging the United States Congress to pass legislation to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development; urging the United States Department of the Interior to recognize the private property rights of owners of land in and adjacent to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; relating to oil and gas exploration, development, production, and royalties; and relating to renewable and alternative energy technologies.

HJR 10 - Oppose ANWR Wilderness Designation

Opposing the revised Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; opposing attempts by President Obama to alter management of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; encouraging the United States Congress to reject a proposal based on the revised Comprehensive Conservation Plan or accompanying Environmental Impact Statement; and encouraging the United States Congress to reject a proposal that does not open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development.

HJR 13 - Retain Army Forces In Alaska

Urging the United States Department of the Army to maintain and strengthen the current level of its combat-capable structure in the state and not to reduce personnel at Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

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2000 piece #Peacock of Peace #origami gift to the #legislature today from #Haines foreign exchange student Haytham Mohanna of #Gaza. He worked with local Thunder Mtn students and presented it to the #akleg in honor of our spirit of teamwork. Amazing.

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#juneau #sunset from the roof of the #capitol tonight. #akleg #perksofthejob

Rep Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, listens to an official from the Alaska Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development testify on the ballot initiative to increase minimum wage at a joint Judiciary Committee hearing Saturday at the Capitol. #akleg #nofilter #alaska #minimumwage

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#Juneau 's amazing #icecave made the cover of the new State Directory. #akleg

@akshelleyhughes talks about the 1964 Great Alaska #Earthquake during this morning's press availability. Today marks the 50-year Anniversary, and Hughes is working with the AK Dept. of Military & Veterans Affairs Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness on their Ready Alaska initiative. #akleg